Give Firefox a Safari-Style Address Bar

One of the coolest features about Safari is the address bar. It doubles as a loading bar, and the shaded color behind it progresses across the address bar as the page loads. It's a bit more intuitive than a...

One of the coolest features about Safari is the address bar. It doubles as a loading bar, and the shaded color behind it progresses across the address bar as the page loads. It's a bit more intuitive than a status bar at the bottom of the screen, and it's a feature I wish were easily available in other browsers. Well, now you can duplicate that functionality with the Fission extension for Firefox.

Fission offers a much easier and simpler way to see that the page is loading than having to look at the bar at the bottom of the screen. And if you're using Fission, you can turn off the status bar at the bottom of the screen entirely. The plug-in also allows you to select a solid color of image to display the loading progress in the address bar. Fission works in all versions of Firefox on all platforms. As soon as I found out about it, I installed it on all of my machines, so I can vouch it's just as attractive in Windows as it is on the Mac.